Re: [PATCH v2] Added file properties to windows gdb executable for all mingw32 builds.

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 08/26/2013 01:01 PM, Bunk, Bernd wrote:
>> From: Pedro Alves [mailto:palves@redhat.com]
>>>> See gdb/configure.ac, gdb/Makefile.in and gdbtk/gdb.rc etc.
>>>> Isn't this going to conflict on gdbtk builds?
>>> See above, yes it would.
>>
>> Well, it just looks to me that the gdbres.rc resource and the icon are
>> presently only used on Cygwin-hosts builds, because nobody bothered to
>> tweak that configure bit to make it work on mingw-hosts too.  That bit
>> is there since at least 2000, and I believe MinGW host support came in
>> much after.  Cygwin wanting pretty icons, but MinGW not is kind of
>> strange, wouldn't you say?  :-)
>>
>> Do you have any hint at what one would need to do, if one were to
>> enable that icon resource on mingw too?
> I can offer to merge this icon into my mingw rc file in a later checkin.

Thanks.  Note the icon should probably only be used for gdbtk/insight
builds, not plain command line gdb builds, and should probably stay in
the gdbtk/ dir.  If it's possible to link in more than one rc file,
than there'd be no problem.  But if that's not possible, then we'd
need something more magical...

But tbh I cannot even find the sources (icon or gdbtk folder).  Someone checked in build rules for something that is not on the same branch (upstream/master).  I am new to this gdb coding, but I would never do something like this...

The gdbtk/ directory is part of insight, which (currently) lives in
the same repository but in a different cvs module.  You'll need to
"cvs ... co insight" instead of "cvs ... co gdb" to get it.

-- 
Pedro Alves